Warsteiner Premium Verum

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Warstein, Germany

Clear golden yellow body with a medium white head. Sweet honey aroma. Some light grain and some light grassy hops.

’King of Pilseners’, no less. Maybe an outside claimant to the throne. Crystal pale pils with a buttery sweetness, elegantly tempered by a crisp finishing dryness. Not remotely representative of the (typically much more bitter) style of most German Pilseners, but bready, delicate, appetising and...delicious?Draught sample(s) at a sausage stall in Lubeck.

About as middle of the road as you can get. Clear, pale yellow, decent head. Corn, malty aroma, some cereal flavor, with mild hop bite. Fresh, but a bit bland.

Aroma reminded me of pulling a frozen pizza out of its wrapper--the smell of frozen cardboard and frozen mozzarella cheese. Low bitterness, slightly dusty flavor, and slightly watery, with less body than I would have thought it deserved.

This is just another example of a crappy american version of a german pilsner. There is no body, no flavor, just bitter watered down essences of malt backed up by some grassy, acidic flavors.

Clear gold with a small white head. Malty aroma with some citrus notes. Malty flavor with some pleasant hoppy bitterness in the finish.

On tap at a local german restaurant - maybe I’m missing something, but I thought this was quite good, and it went very well with my food - light, crisp, and clean - moderate body, with some light sweet malts up front - floral character builds and makes way for a nice spicy kick of noble hops, drying the beer out for a grassy finish - quite hoppy for a german lager, but I liked it.

This beer has chemical and skunky undertones and is weak on flavor. And the flavor that it has is sour. Probably the worst German beer I have ever had. Its the Coors Light of Germany. Leave this one on the shelf or use it as a paper weight.